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DBMS > GridGain vs. Realm vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Realm vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.gridgain.comrealm.iowww.sadasengine.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019SADAS s.r.l.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2007201420062001
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.18.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynono
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infoChange Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)nonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoIn-Memory realmyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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